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CHAIRMAN:

I think we must leave the question of continuity

there although it does cear that continuity has been abruptly broken by events in recent times.

Could we finally turn, 8ir David, to another problem which I know is a crisis of almost as great proportions in possibly your own mind and that of Hong Kong, the

Vietnamese boat people.

MR JIM LESTER:

Sir David, I know you are going to Geneva, I will

ask you that in a moment.

up a technical point.

But can we first of all clear Mre Rita Thun (phon) told us in

Hong Kong that the Vietnamese boat people issue is a

matter of foreign policy and matters of foreign policy and defence rest with the sovereign state.

On the other hand, Sir David Ford told us the policy on Vietnamese boat people is made in Hong Kong, in the

Could you actually tell us best interests of Hong Kong.

what the real position is and perhaps the relative

-financial responsibility between HG and the Hong Kong

Government?